A birth defect is an abnormal condition that is present at birth, regardless of its cause. Birth defects may result in disabilities that may be physical...

Birth Defects Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal of birth defects published by Wiley on behalf of the Society for Birth Defects Research and...

Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a group of birth defects in which an opening in the spine or cranium remains from early in human development. In the third...

heart defects are not associated with other diseases. A complication of CHD is heart failure. Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defect. In...

prevention of birth defects and infant mortality. In 2005, as preterm birth emerged as the leading cause of death for children worldwide, research and prevention...

link, is credited with conducting the scientific research that proved thalidomide was causing birth defects in 1961. McBride was later awarded a number of...

000 neural tube birth defects such as spina bifida yearly, which is estimated to be 22% of total possible preventable neural tube defects assuming universal...

magnate Rupert Murdoch and his family donated A$5 million to the Birth Defects Research Institute at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne in 1984...

2019). "National population-based estimates for major birth defects, 2010-2014". Birth Defects Research. 111 (18): 1420–1435. doi:10.1002/bdr2.1589. ISSN 2472-1727...

effects (FAE), partial fetal alcohol effects (PFAE), alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD), and static encephalopathy, but these terms have fallen out of...

"Birth Defects Research & Prevention" (Government website). Bureau of Family Health and Nutrition. Massachusetts Center for Birth Defects Research and...

population-based programs for birth defects surveillance and research. The NBDPN is committed to the primary prevention of birth defects and improvement of outcomes...

are substances that may cause non-heritable birth defects via a toxic effect on an embryo or fetus. Defects include malformations, disruptions, deformations...

and energy drinks: Reviewing the risks to the adolescent brain". Birth Defects Research. 109 (20): 1640–1648. doi:10.1002/bdr2.1177. PMC 5737830. PMID 29251842...

teratoma with a highly differentiated homunculus: a case report". Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 70 (1): 40–46. doi:10...

teratogen and carries an extremely high risk of severe, life-threatening birth defects if administered or taken during pregnancy. It causes skeletal deformities...

severe birth defect, maternal metabolic derangement, placental insufficiency and fetal hypoxia due to membrane rupture. The development of birth defects associated...

maternal smoking in the etiology of oral clefts and other birth defects". Birth Defects Research. Part C, Embryo Today. 84 (1): 16–29. doi:10.1002/bdrc.20117...

"Association between Maternal Age and Birth Defects of Unknown Etiology - United States, 1997–2007". Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular Teratology...

Series of Cases From the International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research, and Overview of the Literature". American Journal of Medical...

(2020-01-11). "The role of teratogens in neural crest development". Birth Defects Research. 112 (8): 584–632. doi:10.1002/bdr2.1644. ISSN 2472-1727. PMID 31926062...

"Neural tube defects on the Texas-Mexico border: What we've learned in the 20 years since the Brownsville cluster". Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical...

closure, so that surgery can be avoided. Other heart birth defects include ventricular septal defect, pulmonary atresia, and tetralogy of Fallot. An abdominal...

venlafaxine use in early pregnancy and birth defects, national birth defects prevention study, 1997-2007". Birth Defects Research. Part A, Clinical and Molecular...

septal defects are more common than muscular ventricular septal defects, and are the most common congenital cardiac anomaly. Ventricular septal defect is...

noted. The NCI study provides limited evidence of an increased risk of birth defects in the sons or daughters of women who were exposed prenatally to DES...

"Updated National Birth Prevalence estimates for selected birth defects in the United States, 2004-2006". Birth Defects Research. Part A, Clinical and...

great arteries: possible associations with environmental factors". Birth Defects Research. Part A, Clinical and Molecular Teratology. 67 (3): 162–7. doi:10...

limb deficiencies: data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2003". Birth Defects Research. Part A, Clinical and Molecular Teratology...

"Conjoined twins and conjoined triplets: At the heart of the matter". Birth Defects Research. 114 (12): 596–610. doi:10.1002/bdr2.2066. ISSN 2472-1727. PMC 9546242...